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Books 2 months ago
PREMIUM
‘Reflections’: A meditation on Singapore’s regional resilience
Through his collection of essays, author and professor Barry Desker shows how technocratic governance and quiet diplomacy have sustained the island state’s resilience and its enduring, often overlooked ties with Indonesia.
Books 3 months ago
PREMIUM
‘The Palestine Laboratory’: How Israel turns occupation into export
Antony Loewenstein’s award-winning investigation, now in Indonesian, reveals how Israel’s technologies of control, perfected in occupied Palestine, have become profitable, “field-tested” exports shaping global surveillance and warfare.
Books 1 year ago
PREMIUM
‘Systemic Silencing’: A look back at Indonesian survivors of enforced prostitution
Systemic Silencing: Activism, Memory, and Sexual Violence in Indonesia by Katharine E. McGregor focuses on a subset of rakyat kecil (commoners), that is, lower-class women from rural towns and villages, mostly in Java, who played a significant role during the period of Japanese occupation in the early 1940s but whose presence was seemingly visible only to their oppressors.
Books 1 year ago
PREMIUM
Lessons (not) learned: A critical reflection on the COVID-19 pandemic
The "lucky” ones – or the more privileged among us – may look back into the first two years of the pandemic through our social media feeds with a sense of bittersweet nostalgia. How can we forget the first days of remote working and studying from home, or that moment when we could only wave at our relatives during religious holidays?
Books 2 years ago
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Resilience must match new highs in risk
It spells out its message of what it will take to meet the rising climate risks by building higher resilience, finding new ways to adapt to the inevitable, and doing all we can to mitigate climate change by shifting to carbon-free growth paths.
